Re: [boost] [math][integer] Moving integer utilities out of the math lib.

Subject: Re: [boost] [math][integer] Moving integer utilities out of the math lib.
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-11 09:34:37

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:54 PM, John Maddock <boost.regex_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Does that look like a plan?  Anyone care to take it on?
>>>
>> I think so. The logical structure must be preserved.
>> Some years ago, I mentored a Bits Ints GSoC project that falls in this
>> category that added a lot of ct and rt facilities for ints.
>> If no one of the current authors want to take care of the maintenance of
>> this library I could do it, but I would like Beman and John, you help on
>> this task also.
>
>
> I'll help as best I can, but don't really have the time.

Same here.

> BTW I don't think Beman or myself actually authored any aspects of the
> integer lib, we've just fixed a few things here and there from time to time.

IIRC, I authored at least part of integer.hpp. But that was 1999, and
integer.hpp for most uses has long since been made obsolete by
<cstdint>.

--Beman